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Free Cities Online Summit 2025

May 26–30, 2025
Online

The 2025 Free Cities Online Summit ran for five days, entirely online, with more than 40 sessions spanning seasteading, special jurisdictions, personal sovereignty and the future of governance, featuring founders and thinkers from Próspera, Ciudad Morazán, Liberland, the seasteading movement and beyond.

Free Cities Online Summit 2025

Every talk on video

Welcome to the Free Cities Online Summit 2025

Free Cities in the Real World: The Latest Developments

Seasteads Floating… Now What?

Ciudad Morazán: Interview with the Founder of a Free City

LiberArx: Designing Open Source Citadels of Freedom

Autonomous Cities: Successes, Challenges and What Comes Next

Financing Freedom: Why a League of Free Cities Unlocks New Opportunities

One Flag Is a Trap: Why Sovereignty Starts With Diversification

A Decade of Political Economy of Special Economic Zones

Veritas Villages: Real World Freedom Communities in Central America

Guantánamo Bay: The Hong Kong of the Caribbean

Two Long-term Residents Discuss Work, Life, and Freedom in a Blue-Collar Free City

The Blue Frontier: Overcoming the Practical Challenges of Seasteading

How to Live Internationally for Greater Sovereignty

Roadmap to Free Floating Cities

What Free Cities Can Learn From American History

Planting Flags: How to Live Freely and Fully Across Borders

The Unsung Architect of the Honduran ZEDEs

Mauritius: Island of Freedom and Prosperity

Can Free Cities Improve on Democracy?

Seasteading: What Does the Future Hold?

Securing Freedom: Private Law and Defense in Free Cities

Seeding Autonomy: How Pronomos Capital Is Funding New Cities

Próspera in 2025: A Snapshot of Recent Progress

Gain More Privacy in Your Life with GrapheneOS

The Square Mile: What Free Cities Can Learn From the City of London

The Urban Expansion Company: Our Tool for Building Charter Cities

How to Bring Efficiency, Security and Legality to Free Cities

Freedom, Tariffs, and the Financial System: Navigating America’s Next Chapter

Satlantis: A Super-app for Self-Sovereign Communities

Bringing Free Cities to Established (But Stagnating) Democracies

Freedom Cities: Can Trump’s Vision Take Off?

Nostr: How to Become Self-Sovereign Online

Directing “A Private Libertarian City in Honduras”: A Story of Filming in Próspera

Unlocking Minds: How Free Cities Can Transform Education

Why Rule of Law Matters and How Free Cities Can Deliver It

Global Wealth Strategies: Achieving Financial Sovereignty Across Borders

Designing for Adaptability: What Evolution and Institutional Theory Teach Us About Building Societies

Nostr vs ePassports: Competing Visions for Digital Identity

From Freeports to Floating Cities: Building Free Communities on Land and Water

Seasteading: Making It Happen

Building Autonomy: Technology, Territory, and the Future of Free Communities

Who spoke in 2025

Peter Young

Titus Gebel

Joe Quirk

Massimo Mazzone

Mason

Michael Strong

Art Finch

Mikkel Thorup

Lotta Moberg

Patrick Hiebert

Alex Voss

Alex Ugorji

Ben Silone

Francisco Litvay

Mitchell Suchner

Tom Woods

Christoph Heuermann

Carlos Pineda

Paul Dragos Aligica

David Sloan Wilson

Hartmut Sieper

Frank Karsten

Chad Elwartowski

Aleks Svetski

Robert P. Murphy

Patri Friedman

Lonis Hamaili

Nathalie Schönwetter

Michael Mainelli

Jidy Chitta

Alex Tourski

Jordi Llonch Esteve

Jeff Deist

Vera Kichanova

Mark Lutter